Attorney Profile
William M. Duncan graduated with honors in
1981 with a Juris Doctorate degree from Georgetown University. While
at Georgetown as a third year law student, he tried two felony jury
trials to completion in the State of Maryland, and one of his clients
was acquitted.
Mr. Duncan's office is located in Yreka, California (County of
Siskiyou), and is only one block from the court house. His practice is
focused almost entirely on criminal defense, and he has represented
clients charged with nearly every conceivable crime. This includes,
but is not limited to, clients charged with murder, possession, sale
and transportation of controlled substances (including medical
marijuana - Prop. 215, methamphetamine - both possession and
manufacturing, as well as marijuana and cocaine cases), assault, battery, spousal
abuse, robbery, burglary, theft, rape, lewd or lascivious acts, arson,
forgery, and felon in possession of a firearm.
Mr. Duncan has also represented on appeal well over one hundred
persons who were represented at trial by other counsel. The majority
of those appeals were filed in the Court of Appeal located in Los
Angeles, California, and he has obtained several reversals. Articles
concerning his representation of clients have been published in the
Wall Street Journal, San Francisco Chronicle, The Recorder (state wide
daily legal newspaper), and the Siskiyou Daily News. (Several of these
news articles are available to view on this website by clicking
this News link or the News Articles link on the menu
above.)
If you have been arrested for DUI, please click
this DUI link for information about representation and the
possible consequences of a DUI conviction. He has handled hundreds of
DUI cases involving DUIs due to alcohol and prescription drugs, as
well as due to other controlled substances.
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In the mid-1980's, Mr. Duncan was a trial attorney for the U.S.
Department of Justice in San Francisco. He has tried cases in federal
and/or state courts in Florida, New Jersey, Texas, Maryland, Missouri,
Georgia, Hawaii, and California. He is admitted to practice in federal
court for the Eastern District of California (Sacramento), Central
District of California (Los Angeles), Northern District of California
(San Francisco), and the Southern District of California (San Diego),
and he is also admitted to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal and to
the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, as well to the
federal district court for the District of Columbia. Early in his
career, he was a Coast Guard Officer and he was the
officer/attorney-in-charge of representing all Coastguardsmen facing
court-martial on the West Coast, Alaska, and Hawaii, and he had
several criminal defense lawyers working under his supervision.
Mr. Duncan is an active member of both the State Bar of California and
the Bar for the District of Columbia, and he is a member of the
Siskiyou County Bar Association, and the D.C. Bar Association.
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copyright 2007 William M. Duncan, A
Professional Law Corporation
600 Fourth Street
Yreka, California 96097
Office
Phone: 530-841-2670
Cell Phone: 541-944-7803
Fax: 541-770-7483
Email: wduncanlaw@gmail.com
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